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SUBFAMILY HERMINIINAE
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Bocana manifestalis Walker
     Bocana manifestalis Walker, [1859] 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 171.
    Lamura oberratalis Walker, [1859] 1858, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 16: 189.
    Diomea repulsa Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus.,33: 899.
    Bithiasa determinata Walker, 1865, List Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 33: 1116.
    Adrapsa scotosa Holland, 1900, Novit. zool., 7: 573
    Herminia iridescens Lucas, 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 15: 151.
    Pseudaglossa pygata Strand, 1920, Arch. Naturgesch, 84A (12): 158.
    Bocana manifestalis Walker; Holloway, 1976: 41.

Bocana manifestalis

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Diagnosis. The wings are blackish brown, irrorated finely with grey except for the slightly crenate and diffuse postmedials and submarginals on all wings; the grey suffusion is slightly more intense on the distal side of the submarginals. The forewing has a blackish discal mark that is often centred by a white lunule. The underside is similar, but the hindwing discal mark is as strong as, or stronger than, that of the forewing.

Geographical range. Indo-Australian tropics east to Queensland, Samoa and New Caledonia.

Habitat preference. The species is frequent in forest up to 1000m and extends up to 1790m. It also occurs in plantation forest (Chey, 1994).

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